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What's in the little red box? Akitio's Node Lite is a versatile expansion chassis that houses desktop-style PCI Express cards, letting you use them with a Thunderbolt 3-equipped laptop. One of the reasons you might invest in the Node Lite is to drop in a screaming-fast PCIe external storage drive. With the new Intel Optane SSD version of the Node Lite , Akitio is removing the guesswork of which drive to buy and shooting directly at the moon, bundling one of the fastest consumer solid-state drives (SSDs) on the market. This wildly expensive combo comprises the drive enclosure and an Intel Optane SSD 905P, which alone retails for $1,200. Whether this potent, pricey pair is right for you depends on what your PC setup is, and how frequently you perform tasks that suffer from slow storage. (Spoiler: For most folks, it's a dozen kinds of overkill.)